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Isabelle?!

Well dammit - anybody who can't stand a knee or two, nowadays, might as well quit.

About Me


Abandoned on the side of Mount Pokahonaweeblewon, by her tax-evading acrobat parents, when she was just a babe, Isabelle was taken in by a family of goats and raised as one of their own. After 14 or 15 or maybe 16 years of eating little bits of paper and butting heads (which later explained her trying a crack at a career in the accounting) her goat parents moved to another mountainside. But Isabelle decided to see if there was more to life than what one could do at a slight angle. So off she went, down into the valley below the mountain, and into the small, intentional town that was centrally located, aptly named Central.
There, after spending several weeks living in the town fountain, she was taken in by the town Mayor and his wife, Lola. They were very loving parents, if not a bit political (I mean come on, taking in a feral goat-girl, what better sap story is there for the 6 o’clock news?).
The Mayor was a loud man, loud and tall. He liked to use words that had three or four syllables, like Constantinople or jujube. He also held the world record in pipe bending, a feat that he like to draw attention to at the beginning of every speech, toast, or declarative sentence he made. The Mayor’s wife, Lola, was a broad woman, with rosy cheeks and the smell of lavender about her. A former spy for the Soviets, before being introduced to her husband outside an Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous meeting (he was there for an adult education course on welding), she was demure yet still had an air of uncertainty. Lola enjoyed picture straightening, the skin that forms on top of uncovered pudding, and rolling socks into neat little balls and then color coordinating the sock balls in the sock drawer. She also had a secret love of pulling the books to the front end of the shelf and arranging them by height, which she did anytime something deeply upset her.
Isabelle’s second set of human parents raised the young girl with all the love and supportive metal framing they could. They taught their daughter the ins and outs of the English language and human behavior. Things like, opening doors with your hand instead of kicking them in with your foot and trying not to carry on a conversation when your mouth was full of cherry tomatoes. By the time Isabelle had reached the age of 24, she was a force to be reckoned with. With all the stubbornness of Oreamnos Americanus and the shrewd behavior of a politician she was bound for great things..

My Interests

♥[My family]
♥[Staying in the present]

♥[My theremin]

♥[My Accordion]

♥[Pizzicato jazz]
♥[My paintings]
♥[Storytelling]

♥[Notes left in my mailbox]
♥[My Bike!!]
♥[The end of the world]

♥[Who huddles]

♥[Bento!]

♥[SCIENCE!]
[Specifically Economics, Primatology,Chemistry, Philosophy and Political Science!]
♥[Hydrogen Bonds]
♥[Geological measures]
♥[Astrobotany]
♥[Music - I play it AND I just obsess]
♥[Bending circuitry]
♥[Verfremdungseffekt]
♥[Skiffle]
♥[Traveling/Taking Pictures]

♥[Acrobats]
♥[Wigs]
♥[Men who wear suits]
♥[Women who wear dresses]
♥[Les Zazous!]

♥[Coffee - Thou shall not partake of decaf!]
♥[Spelling incorrectly]
♥[Being a grammar fanatic]
♥[Making sarcastic comments]
♥[Making jokes about really awful things]
♥[Evil Robots]
♥[Making my brain larger and more wrinkly!]

I'd like to meet:



....And her eyes immediately met those of a large, blue caterpillar that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah.
The caterpillar and Alice looked at each other in silence

Music:



I am in need of music that would flow
Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips,
Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips,
With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.
Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low,
Of some song sung to rest the tired dead,
A song to fall like water on my head,
And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!

There is a magic made by melody:
A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool
Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep
To the subaqueous stillness of the sea,
And floats forever in a moon-green pool,
Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.

-Elizabeth Bishop

Movies:

Any movie that is extremely cheesy,tasteless, or those crazy movies that play in your head, when your half way between asleep and awake.

Television:

I admit it.I watch television. Too much.
I like to watch random british comedies(i.e those shows that come on PBS on Saturday evenings), political talk shows, anything written by/starring larry david, Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, How It's Made, Mythbusters, basically anything with big machines that go BOOM(!) and things on the history channel..

[Mystery Science Theater 3000]

oh and

[Artwork by Jeff Victor]

Books:

Any book that is extremely cheesy or tasteless,about a person I find intriguing (or equally stupid for that matter),books that make my head hurt, ones I have to use the dictionary while reading them, and books that lead me to want to read other books..like some sort of crazy bacterial growth......

....I also like reading the backs of t-shirts.

"Anyone caught removing books from the shelves will have their hands amputated."

Heroes:


♠[People who own more than one copy of the OED]
♠[My parents]
♠[Centrifugal Force]
♠[Pascal for affirming my non-faith in religon.]
♠[Tolstoy for reaffirming my faith that there is a meaning to life in the meaning of life.]
♠[Alton Brown]

♠[Mimi Garneau]
♠[Raoul Duke]
♠[G.A.Tikhov]

♠[Mr. Tom Waits]

Sartre smoked. Colette, George Sand, Marguerite Duras, Gide -- they all smoked, ... We have a long history of great thinking with coffee and cigarettes.”

My Blog

My nephew; Accordion virtuoso

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Posted by Isabelle?! on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:53:00 PST

The Ill-Advised Fight Against Malapropisms or Eggcorns

Eggcorns--a type of common and somewhat logical language goof named after a misspelling of "acorn." Eggcorns have garnered quite a following on the web, where they were first discussed on the popular ...
Posted by Isabelle?! on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:55:00 PST

This has started taking up a large portion of my morning

http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/gadgetized/game/anagramania/ ...
Posted by Isabelle?! on Sun, 25 May 2008 07:55:00 PST

Infatuated

I'm pretty sure this man could get me to eat kidney meat or sheep's head... and then smoke a cigarette after. ...
Posted by Isabelle?! on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:27:00 PST

The Paradox of Analysis (aka being nit picky about being nit picky)

The Paradox of Analysis In philosophy, when studying the theories of what is knowledge and how it is formed, one will be confronted by many terms. Among these is the idea of a concept. A conce...
Posted by Isabelle?! on Mon, 05 May 2008 02:07:00 PST

Dissolving acids ... (Anais Nin appreciation post)

"...June has worn him out, his jealousies, and his capacity for suffering. What he has left is a capacity for enjoying peace. I palliate the sufferings of others. Yes, I see myself as softening the bl...
Posted by Isabelle?! on Mon, 05 May 2008 07:44:00 PST

Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (Full Speech)

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Posted by Isabelle?! on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:40:00 PST

New addiction

Although the FDA has not evaluated Kombucha, it is widely thought that the product supports:  digestion, metabolism, the immune system, appetite control, weight control, liver function,...
Posted by Isabelle?! on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:29:00 PST

My nephew can roll over!!

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Posted by Isabelle?! on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:28:00 PST

Obama Rally in Va Beach

[It doesn't look different from the other photos, but somewhere on that stage is a future president!][We are very serious about getting to know our candidates] [We are WAAAAYYYY in the back]J...
Posted by Isabelle?! on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:32:00 PST